Down South
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Description
Lady Duffus Hardy's Down South was published by Chapman and Hall at London in 1883. Hardy had already written Through Cities and Prairie Lands. Her contents trace a steamer-and-rail tour of the American South: Richmond and its monuments, the Luray cave, and the great swamp to Charleston. Saint Michael's chimes, Magnolia Cemetery, and Fort Sumter fill the Charleston chapters, then Savannah, the forest city, and the run to Jacksonville.
Florida takes the middle of the book: Fernandina, Dungeness, Saint Augustine with its city gate, Fort Marion, and the old slave market. The Silver Springs and the Ocklawaha, the Saint John's River, and the Indian River follow. A wild-cat train runs through train wreckers to New Orleans, the Paris of the South, with its levees and French quarters. Hardy writes as an English lady traveller, curious about scenery, society, and the coloured folk of the postwar South.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 362 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |